needlebush

Questions about needlebush

What does needlebush mean?

needlebush means "shrub with pungent rigid needle-shaped leaves and white flowers; eastern Australia".

How many syllables are in needlebush?

needlebush has 3 syllables and divides as need-le-bush under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for needlebush?

Close synonyms include needle-bush, needle bush, Hakea lissosperma. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is needlebush a common word?

needlebush is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.